Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from dabbling tentatively in the oil that was gushing up in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, John D. became an oilman to the exclusion of all else. His refining firm was Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagier, later (1870) the Standard Oil Company. Railroads whose good customer Standard became helped Standard suppress competition by furnishing reports on competitors' shipments. John D. hated having rivals. By 1877 one company gathered, transported, refined and sold practically all U. S. oil?the Standard...
...Debated a bill by Idaho's Borah to suppress unfair and fraudulent practices in marketing perishable farm products...
...King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King's messengers to the publishers to suppress...
Many colleges are injuring their press relations with the public by attempting to suppress unfavorable news stories, said Mr. R. W. Madry, director of the News Bureau of the University of North Carolina, in an address before the Association of College News Bureaus, at Vanderbilt University...
...once newspapers learn that an institution is trying to suppress a story, the chances are nine out of ten that they will give that particular story a much bigger ply than they would have had it been given to the papers when it first broke." The New Student